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One motivating factor in my moving to the US was to avoid the consequences of a class-war fuelled, economically damaging, Jeremy Corbyn tax agenda. Well, politics is surprising sometimes. The state of debate in the US this week has left me wondering whether, on that front, I’d have been better sticking around.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshly elected Democrat congresswoman from New York, kicked off the political week by proposing a new income tax rate as high as “60pc to 70pc”. Few of us have any prospect of surpassing the $10m (£7.8m) threshold she proposes for when it would kick in. But the response to such a punitive rate, in this supposed land of radical free enterprise, was muted indifference....